The perfect "Hot Coffee" analogy
Eureka! I've found an analogy that conveys to those (often non-programmers?) who don't get why I don't hold Rockstar North/Take-Two responsible.
If I downloaded and applied a patch to San Andreas that caused the game to crash and never work until I uninstalled and re-installed the entire game, does that mean Rockstar/Take-Two put out a shoddy product? Do they owe me a refund? Because I can write such a patch in a heartbeat. Hell, I can do that for any game. If I did, would it be the job of Rockstar North/Take-Two to make sure that such code changes didn't affect the game? If not, why not? It's the exact same thing that Patrick Wildenborg did to make the 'Hot Coffee' missions playable? If RN/TT is responsible in his case, why not mine?
And if you think that they are responsible for my changing the code to introduce a crashing bug... Wow.
If I downloaded and applied a patch to San Andreas that caused the game to crash and never work until I uninstalled and re-installed the entire game, does that mean Rockstar/Take-Two put out a shoddy product? Do they owe me a refund? Because I can write such a patch in a heartbeat. Hell, I can do that for any game. If I did, would it be the job of Rockstar North/Take-Two to make sure that such code changes didn't affect the game? If not, why not? It's the exact same thing that Patrick Wildenborg did to make the 'Hot Coffee' missions playable? If RN/TT is responsible in his case, why not mine?
And if you think that they are responsible for my changing the code to introduce a crashing bug... Wow.
posted by Jeffool at 1:01 PM
1 Comments:
Rockstar/Take Two really can't be held responsible for the fact that Someone really, really, really wants to be Empress . . . uh, President, and needs to appeal to roughly two percent of the conservative base.
It really has nothing to do with the fact that a game rated M for Mature for its graphic violence and mature sexual themes shockingly is very violent with a patch that reveals mature sexual themes.
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